SIPA Faculty-Camilla Nestor

Camilla Nestor

Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs


Personal Details

Camilla Nestor currently serves as CEO of MCE Social Capital. Over her two-decade career, she has focused on strategies that improve the economic lives of people around the world. Prior to joining MCE, she served as CEO of MIX, where she launched new strategic directions and worked to design and structure a merger with the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion. Before that, in over a decade in leadership positions at Grameen Foundation, Camilla led global programs in financial inclusion, agriculture and health. She built the organization’s impact investing arm, placing debt, equity and guarantees that generated over $250 million for financial service providers. Earlier in her career, she worked at Citigroup executing debt financing for emerging markets firms, and spent four years working in Indonesia and the Balkans setting up microfinance institutions. She received a Masters in International Affairs from SIPA and an MBA from Columbia Business School.